One side of my family was wild as hell.. the other side was super religious. Being in the middle of that you couldn't help BUT to be around wild dudes sometimes. Especially in the early years before we left the projects. I put robbing gas stations in that same category because realistically...for that felony risk, how much are you really about to come up off of from robbing a gas station? Dudes didnt care lol. It was either that type nonsense or selling dope...and I ain't talkin about weed.A lot of their youngins are the very ones down there in gangs shooting each other right now. Same families, different generation.
Without hardly ever going down there other than to slide to my parents house and back home, I'd bet I could give the last names of half or more of the wild shit that happens down there. Same neighborhoods it's always been...same folks that were wildin when we were young that taught their kids the same type nonsense. Only with the gang influence now, it's way worse than it was when I was growing up. Used to be a town where one murder by a gun would be wildly uncharacteristic. Now, they're on the news as much as Atlanta for gun violence.